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Automation Aims to Combat Helicopter Accidents

More and more systems within helicopters are becoming automated as makers attempt to reduce high accident rates.

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increasingly helicopter manufactures parts makers operators ... are relying on the nation ... to prove the safety of choppers ... for decades have been autopilot on helicopters but now ... many factors are increasingly put a fly by wire system similar to those used jetliners ... fly by wire systems prevent pilots and putting the aircraft positions in attitude speeds from which they can't recover the same ideas the use of helicopters ... to some extent this is happening because the helicopter actually reads globally have been persistently high and there's a sense that something needs to be done about it ... helicopter makers and regulators have decided ... that automation will make this is the much safer ... some smaller helicopter operators who may only have three or four or five aircraft ... have been resisting this trend but it's pretty clear now ... that the big manufacturers in the big operators are determined to go in this direction ... it's only a matter of time and will start seeing these automated systems that all sorts of helicopters use for all types of purpose ...